ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital repository that contains hundreds of thousands of images and related data for use in retrieving information or utilizing digital presentations. To begin, go here… http://guides.library.vcu.edu/home. There is a guide called “finding images,” which includes ARTstor. ARTstor is available to all students, faculty, and staff of Virginia Commonwealth University. Once you’ve signed up, you can access the resource here…www.artstor.org/info/
ARTstor HELP is a great resource for directions, instructional handouts, how-to links in YouTube, Q & A, etc. Assistance for individuals and instruction sessions for classes can be scheduled with our Reference Librarian for the Arts, Kristina Keogh, keoghkm@vcu.edu or (804) 828-6339.
Media Reserve Services (MRS) on the third floor of Cabell Library http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/mrs/ has scanning stations available during their hours of operation. Although MRS staff cannot scan slides for faculty or students, they can provide assistance with the equipment. The department phone number is (804) 828-1088.
Related Collections on the VCU Academic West Campus
The art-related collection of the Cabell Library provides a valuable resource for research in the arts. Nearly 100,000 book titles, more than 30,000 exhibition catalogues (which grows yearly), and over 8,000 journals related to the arts are available. Cabell Library also has a collection of over 1,100 films and videos on art subjects. This collection also includes supplemental collections of slide sets, art prints, spoken word recordings, and computer software and multi-media CD-ROMs. Located in Cabell library is one of the few Book Art collections of substantial quality and quantity found in the United States. This significant collection includes works by Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, John Baldessari and Willem Sandberg. Supporting the work of music scholars are in excess of 10,000 music scores, over 1,800 CDs, over 10,500 LPs and more than 2,800 cassettes.
